Today was probably one of the highlights of the trip, although we're only just at the beginning! The whole WebMission party got spoiled with a fantastic brunch reception at the home of Craig's list CEO Jim Buckmaster and his partner Susan Best, owner of Best PR and director at the Glasshouse.

It was amazingly cool! Jim and Susan were stunningly generous to welcome a party of 70 people (maybe more...) into their own home. We completely invaded! They invited some great American guests to give the WebMission party a sense of how informal networking works in the Valley.

There were lots of very interesting people around. I briefly met one of the whiz kids from Auctomatic, Brit Harjeet Taggar who moved to San Fran a couple of months ago and just sold the company to Live Current Media. There seems to be an active UK network around here: Susan is Scottish, Michael Birch from Bebo is British, the people from the British Consulate / UK Trade & Investment seem to be very active...

I also met Richard Tyler, Enterprise Editor from the Telegraph and Mark Prisk, MP Shadow Minister, Business & Enterprise, to whom I could not resist to mention how the Centre for Policy Studies is using Webjam to create an online community and discussion platform

:)